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Lack of Windows 64bit support
Seriously. I have XP 64 on my main system at home (ok, stop laughing) because I have 4gb of RAM and don't want to make my Athlon X2 into a K6 by running Vista. Anyway, I've recently decided that it would be a good idea to move my music creation stuff from my old desktop to the new one. The old one just really can't keep up any more and starts ( Read more... ) -
LFG
There hasn't been a lot of visible progress on MV3D recently. That's mostly due to changes in my employment, but also because I'm working on a monolithic project to revamp the load balancing. I think I'm half way through, but I'm not really sure. Anyway, for the past 3 years, I've been the only developer working on MV3D. Mainly, I wanted to make ( Read more... ) -
Balancing act.
I didn't really go into detail too much as to how I solved load balancing and redundancy previously. In order to better flesh it out, I'm going to do so now. Please refer to the following diagram:
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Redundancy, check.
After about a week of banging my head against the wall trying to figure out a better way to do redundancy in MV3D, I think I've finally got it worked out. I even have code to back it up. What I've created is a redundant pool of objects. Servers can join or leave the pool, and objects are replicated to all servers in the pool. One server is the ( Read more... ) -
Unified theory of high availability.
I've been working on ticket #211 for MV3D lately. If you looked at the ticket, you'll see it's something that's been kicked around for a bit. The current redundancy and load balancing code is fairly broken in trunk. It did work at some point in the past, but a myriad of changes have caused it to break in various ways. Clearly, one problem is that ( Read more... ) -
Better late than never...
I'm finally gearing up to make another official release of MV3D. This release includes quite a lot of new content creation features including:
- Add and remove objects
- Move and rotate objects
- Select objects by mouse or from a list
- Terrain Editor
- Grass Editor
- Object Factory UI (for creating complex objects using templates ( Read more... )
- Add and remove objects
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MV3D Status
I've actually had some time to work on MV3D lately, which I've been happy about. I did make a short video of the in game editor. It's nothing wonderful (though I really like the music I came up with for it).
One of the things I did over the long weekend was to start making the client behave a little more like a client and less like a dumb terminal ( Read more... ) -
Nevow + Axiom website: finished product (sort of)
First off, websites are hardly ever "finished" as I'm sure many of you know. Anyway, I've got the site up for real now although it's still lacking in content (Corey, put some stuff up there, hint hint). Working with Nevow and Axiom was great and enabled me to build the site in a very short amount of time. The brunt of the work was done in about a ( Read more... ) -
Nevow Complaints Vol 1
I've heard a good amount of complaints made against Nevow, and one of them was that templates can't include other templates. I've been working on a web based resource management system for MV3D this weekend and of course, it uses Nevow. I decided it would be nice to have a main layout template that included other templates for navagation and the ( Read more... ) -
Release time!
I just released MV3D 0.32 today. It has all the features I mentioned in a previous post plus now a load tester. There's a slight issue with the load tester, though. It can't handle load very well. The load tester, not MV3D. I had it going with about 75 clients connected and moving around, but the load tester was going very slowly. The problem is ( Read more... )
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